35. Women Who Dare

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC

Personal Journals, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Worsley, historian Professor Rosalind Crone and author and journalist Helen Lewis, explore the lives of four notorious Lady Swindlers. They’ll be discussing underworld boss Tilly Devine, fake heiress Violet Charlesworth, queen of shoplifting Alice Diamond and fake Princess Mary Baker a.k.a. “Princess Caraboo”. These women - through cunning and bravado - carve out notorious reputations and leave unforgettable legacies that we’re still talking about today. Lucy and her guests imagine what our Lady Swindlers lives would look like now. Would they have become internet famous and built personal brands? Or would their audacity led to them being cancelled? They also discuss how our swindlers manipulate perceptions and navigate their world to live the lives they dreamed of, unapologetically. From Princess Caraboo's elaborate cosplay and Violet Charlesworth’s audacious lifestyle to Tilly Devine's criminal empire, the series paints a vivid picture of women who dared.

Producer: Riham Moussa Readers: Clare Corbett and Jonathan Keeble Sound Design: Chris Maclean Executive producer: Kirsty Hunter

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.0	I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of
0:13.7	podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one
0:18.9	that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next
0:26.1	fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its
0:31.5	audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this
0:34.6	podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
0:45.0	Welcome to Lady Swindlers with me Lucy Worsley,
0:50.0	where True Crime meets history with a twist.
0:54.0	This series we're on the trail of the Bold and the Brason.
1:04.0	Women who dared to step out of the life laid out for them,
1:08.0	sometimes just to survive, but sometimes to thrive.
1:12.0	In this episode, we'll travel back again. but sometimes to thrive.
1:13.0	In this episode, we'll travel back over 200 years
1:16.0	to revisit some of our Lady Swindlers
1:19.0	and bring them into the present.
1:20.0	We're going to take a look at their lives,
1:22.0	a feminist look actually, and we're going to take a look at their lives, a feminist look actually, and we're going to ask, is anything so very different today?
1:29.0	Just before we begin, the cases we're going to discuss are covered in previous episodes of this series of Lady Swindlers
1:35.8	So if you haven't already listened there are spoilers ahead
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